I like 1950-60s commie aesthetics.

[NorthernWind]

Not posters, of course.
But the whole atmosphere seemed to be 'innocent'. I imagine that people were more naive and blind to the vices of the world ( such as drugs, sexual perversions, crimes etc ).
Of course, life was simplistic and people were very poor materially ( even compared to today's EE ) but they probably had a few things and desires and were more satisfied by small things.
There were a few cars on the streets. So no soycietal pressure to have a car.
Forbidden items from the West were very valuable. So even if you managed to get some Western book, music disk or electronics, you were happy like you have achieved something.
You would have been more impressed and struck by Playboy magazine or erotic movie than by all online porn today.
Colorlesness and hopelessness of every day commie life could push anyone to dream or seek hope in other things ( like religion, philosophy etc )...

Pyongyang in 1960s.

 

[Mainländer]

Communism sucks harder than anything else ever invented in history, so commies had to go out of their way with propaganda, cool aesthetics, music, cultural subversion, etc.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYJmGaBMQJ8

I think this is the only song in German I like.

 

[Adûnâi]

Λεωνίδας Perkūnas BREJNEV was the last king of old EVROPA.

 

[pepino]

Not posters, of course.
But the whole atmosphere seemed to be 'innocent'. I imagine that people were more naive and blind to the vices of the world ( such as drugs, sexual perversions, crimes etc ).
Of course, life was simplistic and people were very poor materially ( even compared to today's EE ) but they probably had a few things and desires and were more satisfied by small things.
There were a few cars on the streets. So no soycietal pressure to have a car.
Forbidden items from the West were very valuable. So even if you managed to get some Western book, music disk or electronics, you were happy like you have achieved something.
You would have been more impressed and struck by Playboy magazine or erotic movie than by all online porn today.
Colorlesness and hopelessness of every day commie life could push anyone to dream or seek hope in other things ( like religion, philosophy etc )...

Pyongyang in 1960s.

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soviet swag

 

[I.N.C.E.L.S. Boss]

Humm, commie apartment complexes are depressingly depressing.

 

[Fancy Alcoholic]

1960 Pyongyang was a mogger tbh

At that time North Korea wasn't the shithole it has become. It was the richest of the two Koreas. Then, uncle Sam did all the evil US blocus and american psy ops, CIA manipulations and sabotage of all international institutions, through UN and NATO, to rig the game in favor of the "first world power" ...

I wonder how life would have been if the capitalistic cliques and their allies had been defeated once and for all in the 60's. If USSR won the space race. If the Chicago boys degenerates were neutralized by tzar bombas. We only got the sexual revolution, feminism and other false causes that perfectly melted into their neoliberal narrative.

Their tour de force was to make us believe that degeneracy was somehow because of the fallen regimes, the fault of those who literally lost the cold war. The American right wing is the cause of all the dystopic turmoil we currently live in, their absolute fault.

 

[NorthernWind]

Communism sucks harder than anything else ever invented in history, so commies had to go out of their way with propaganda, cool aesthetics, music, cultural subversion, etc.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYJmGaBMQJ8

I think this is the only song in German I like.

I have read that ironically one felt an inner freedom during commie times.
One author, some French writer if I'm not mistaken, wrote that he never felt more free than when he was in Japanese concentration camp during childhood.
Maybe external pressure increases inner freedom while outer freedom increases inner pressure.

 

[Fancy Alcoholic]

I have read that ironically one felt an inner freedom during commie times.

If you actually buy the fictionnal "free world" psy op meme, you're a literal slave.

 

[NorthernWind]

1960 Pyongyang was a mogger tbh

At that time North Korea wasn't the shithole it has become. It was the richest of the two Koreas. Then, uncle Sam did all the evil US blocus and american psy ops, CIA manipulations and sabotage of all international institutions, through UN and NATO, to rig the game in favor of the "first world power" ...

I wonder how life would have been if the capitalistic cliques and their allies had been defeated once and for all in the 60's. If USSR won the space race. If the Chicago boys degenerates were neutralized by tzar bombas. We only got the sexual revolution, feminism and other false causes that perfectly melted into their neoliberal narrative.

Their tour de force was to make us believe that degeneracy was somehow because of the fallen regimes, the fault of those who literally lost the cold war. The American right wing is the cause of all the dystopic turmoil we currently live in, their absolute fault.

North Korea still belongs to the developed countries according to some Japanese economist.

 

[turbocuckcel_7000]

Not posters, of course.
But the whole atmosphere seemed to be 'innocent'. I imagine that people were more naive and blind to the vices of the world ( such as drugs, sexual perversions, crimes etc ).
Of course, life was simplistic and people were very poor materially ( even compared to today's EE ) but they probably had a few things and desires and were more satisfied by small things.
There were a few cars on the streets. So no soycietal pressure to have a car.
Forbidden items from the West were very valuable. So even if you managed to get some Western book, music disk or electronics, you were happy like you have achieved something.
You would have been more impressed and struck by Playboy magazine or erotic movie than by all online porn today.
Colorlesness and hopelessness of every day commie life could push anyone to dream or seek hope in other things ( like religion, philosophy etc )...

Pyongyang in 1960s.

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it's an interesting subject because it shows the type of society that normies really want.

whenever communism was instated, it was quiet for a little while, but normie discontent would eventually bubble to the surface.
they would start having illegal abortions in alleys, import contraceptives and degenerate media from abroad, stop marrying, send their children to orphanages, etcetera.
as soon as the communist system started to have trouble, the normies would seize the opportunity to create the society that they wanted.

that society is a kind of jungle/caveman society with lots of sex outside of marriage, lots of contraception and abortions, and many bonus freedoms and safety nets for women.
it's unfortunately not some kind of a "psy op" that this caveman society always comes to the fore, because in the final decade or so of a communist system you can see that normies had already built an underground version of their ideal society, working very hard like busy little ants, so that when the communist system does collapse, everything turns into a fucking Bosch painting overnight, and the generation that is coming-of-age right after the commie collapse has to deal with what feels like a non-stop Woodstock stoner festival fuckfest while growing up.

 

[Saigon Depression]

Humm, commie apartment complexes are depressingly depressing.

And most are still standing to this day.